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Stacey C. Johnson
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I listen and make notes.
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I love this publication, and am proud to be in the company of these writers and editors. www.inflectionism.com/21-stacey-c-...
The Inflectionist Review - Stacey C. Johnson, i am trying to admit this grief
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October 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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March 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Efficiency is an invalid premise when it comes to the work of valuing any life.

Lift every voice against the machine.

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in defiance of efficiency
My friends are the monsters and the dispossessed & to paraphrase James Baldwin every bombed-out village is my home . . .
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March 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Reposted by Stacey C. Johnson
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Issue #93 out now! Featured Poet Tony Brinkley, supported by Robert Okaji, Gwen Sayers, Noralee Zwick, Shangri-La Hou, @skimperil.bsky.social, @stacecjohnson.bsky.social, John Muro, Matthew Lew, and Christian Worby.

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Part of the featured poem for the issue by Tony Brinkley, "In the Presence of My Enemies," which can be found at the linked page.
March 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Thanks, libre!
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January 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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confession
I want to do so much more of what I dream may last but most of my offerings are ephemeral in nature. I dream and offer back into dreaming.
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December 18, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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shelled
After the war moved in, some went numb and never returned. Some emitted the atmosphere of carnival, others of tombs.
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December 2, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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point being
The point, if there is one, is to emerge. Or else it is to acknowledge the emergence of something. It is possible these acts are synonymous.
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November 26, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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a reading
We pulled the husks of cicadas from our ears and the buried songs emerged from these gestating skeletons, and in the end we held them. . .
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November 25, 2024 at 5:00 AM
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At Eucalyptus Lit: www.eucalyptuslit.com/issue-3/stac...
November 23, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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Thank you, @mississippireview.bsky.social for this honor. I am glad to find you here as I try to migrate over : )
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The 2024 Poetry Prize winner is "Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Sea" by Stacey C. Johnson. Check out this beautiful long poem in issue 52 1&2
November 23, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Notes From the Fire
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November 23, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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Thank you to UAF and Permafrost Magazine for publishing this one. I wrote it years ago and it is feeling chillingly relevant now. I am grateful to find this space and mean to start posting. #poetrycommunity
November 22, 2024 at 1:23 AM